Folk Bands and Artists

The Fantasy Orchestra is a community project led by Jesse D Vernon, based in Bristol and also in Paris. The Orchestra (motto: ‘more is more’) brings together 40+ musicians, professional and amateur, t…

The Finns are two brothers, Ciarán and Hugh, who have been entertaining crowds worldwide for years with this duo and as members of the band Na Fianna. As a duet with their chosen weapons of guitar, ba…

Old time party time. Forged by many joyful late-night sessions, The Firecrackers play party tunes and songs taking inspiration from the high energy music of their fiddle heroes from the 1800’s to the …

A blend of modern and traditional music along with jigs and reels; folk music has been taken in, anarchised and re-processed with a real hard political edge. Jay Terrestrial and the Firepit Collective…

Meet the Fitzgeralds ~ a family group consisting of fiddling and step dancing sensations Tom, Kerry & Julie Fitzgerald. These siblings, from Canada’s renowned Ottawa Valley, have come a long way from …

The husband-and- wife duo of Hilary Claire and Stuart Adamson—better known as The Flyin’ A’s—are onthe cusp of releasing their third independent album, You Drive Me Crazy. As a top-shelf complement to…

The FoBo Jug Band bring you delta blues, barrelhouse blues and country, ragtime and jug band classics. Wailng harp, honky tonk piano, crossroads guitar and holllerin´ vocals make up this powerful and …

Over the last two years The Conservatoire Folk Ensemble has played major shows everywhere from The Royal Albert Hall to Fairport’s Cropredy Convention and Towersey and Shambala festivals. Their new li…

Juno award-winning Canadian supergroup The Fretless (2017 Instrumental Album of The Year) also picked up two nominations in the Canadian Folk Music Awards (Best Contemporary Album and Instrumental Gro…

Anna, Sheila and Clare Friel are young traditional musicians born and brought up in Glasgow with their family roots firmly entrenched in the Donegal Gaeltacht. They play a mixture of music intersperse…

To record their first release in three years, Vancouver-based indie folk collective The Fugitives was just hoping to stay home. After eight years of touring Canada and Europe, they’d drained most of t…

The Furrow Collective delves into an obscure world of balladry at its darkest and quirkiest. At Our Next Meeting brings gems from the traditional repertoires of four of the finest folk musicians from …

The Gloaming carves new paths connecting the rich Irish folk tradition and the New York contemporary music scene. From haunting sean- ‐nós songs to rousing instrumental medleys, they create a new musi…

From the coast of North Wales with just two old guitars, an upright bass and a bucket full of aching harmony, The Goat Roper Rodeo Band are out there preaching ‘country blues’, like you’ve never heard…

One of Canada’s premier folk bands, known for their three-part harmonies, constant instrument swapping and witty on stage banter. With high-profile awards including a Juno and multiple Canadian Folk M…